Two Coinbase employees managed to find a heartwarming use for NFTs by incorporating it into their wedding and exchanging the digital tokens as part of the ceremony.
Rebecca Rose and Peter Kacherginsky say it together with their traditional Jewish ceremony, the couple also sent each other digital tokens as ‘virtual rings’ to each other. In A Twitter thread About the wedding, Rose said that their virtual rings now exist on the blockchain “to prove everyone as a proof of our commitment to each other.”
Normally, a wedding photo with the couple at the altar would use their phones, put mildly, depressingly. But in the context that they basically exchange rings, even if in an untraditional way, it makes it a little cute. It also helps that you can see the exchange for yourself – this is of course on the blockchain.
I know a lot of us here at NFTs vod The edge, but honestly, the more I dug into the nerdy details of this, the cuter it got. They mention the sign, for example, Tabaat, the Hebrew word for ‘ring’. If you look up the Tabaat sign on Etherscan, it appears that two signs have been struck and that it can never be made again. How romantic.
There is also the animation that the couple instructed to add to the NFT, which itself is a reasonable version of the marriage.
The name of the sign is Tabaat, the Hebrew word for ring. We saved an animation by artist Carl Johan Hasselrot (@cjhasselrot) within the unique signs, which illustrate that two different things become one, as in marriage. #NFTArt 3/7 pic.twitter.com/5s8hLGbRdG
– Rebecca Rose (@rgoldilox) 2 April 2021
The charm of this story is not really in the technical details – most people will probably not find the blockchain so romantic. It is that two nerdy people found a nerd thing that they were both passionate about and processed it into an important moment in their relationship. This is something that is easy to love.